Ordinate fondness

biology, data science, and thoughts that sporadically shake loose

Predicting cell surface protein abundance using foundation model embeddings

I can’t believe it’s not better!
citizen science
Gigantic thanks to Phil Fradkin & Hassaan Maan for their help putting together this post, and work on this project as a whole 😁. Here we’ll describe our submission to…
Jan 15, 2025
11 min

Xetthecum

Digital ecocultural mapping
citizen science
I built a website for the IMERSS ecocultural mapping project of Retreat Cove on Galiano, BC.
Mar 30, 2024
1 min

Bee book!

A digital field guide to bees in BC
citizen science
I recently put together a website to act as a guidebook to bees documented in the Pacific Maritime region of British Columbia.
Jan 11, 2024
1 min

Data driven CV in R

How I built this site
tips & tools
Probably the best format for your CV is latex.
However, it is in my nature to try to reinvent the wheel.
Dec 15, 2023
5 min

Research dashboard in Notion

Free template for you <3
tips & tools
I use notion to organize lots of things, in particular my research notes. I used to use R Markdown, which was great for mixing text, images, \(\LaTeX\), code, and (most…
Nov 29, 2023
2 min

Reflection on Toronto GAAP

Application help for prospective graduate students
mentorship
It’s my second time organizing the Toronto CS Graduate Application Assistance Program and it was a great experience!
Dec 4, 2022
1 min

Writing strategies for Canadian scholarships

Applying for OGS, CGS/PGS, and the like.
gradschool
tips & tools
This post is my attempt to compile what I’ve learned about writing though applying for government scholarships. Most of it comes from my own trial and error, but some I also…
Oct 24, 2022
9 min

Operation Galiwatch

A citizen science project to monitor pollinators
citizen science
My parents got into birdwatching… at scale. They’ve set out to thoroughly document what’s going on in their yard on Galiano Island, BC: Operation Galiwatch.
Jan 30, 2022
1 min

Undergraduate research at UofT

Links to some sweet resources and stuff to know when looking for research positions
tips & tools
This post is aimed primarily at students interested in computational biology and machine learning, but not restricted to these areas by any means.
Nov 8, 2021
7 min

Ode to Zotero

Zotero is my citation manager. I love it, here’s why.
tips & tools
Zotero is my citation manager. I love it, here’s why.
Sep 5, 2021
1 min

How to be a good grad student

It’s not easy bein’ green
gradschool
Over the last year, I asked several of my mentors this question:
May 4, 2021
2 min
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